大学英语四级阅读理解练习和答案.pdf

导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于 《大学英语四级阅读理解练 习和答案》的内容，具体内容：下面是我整理的，希望对大家有帮助。： Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.Large co... 下面是我整理的，希望对大家有帮助。 ： Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company, trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know,and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis fo long-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange fo a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By doing so, they can put into circulation the savings of individual and institutions, both at home and overseas. 第1页 / 总页数 7 页 When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money. Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Govern mentor by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The Government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they too, come to the Stock Exchange. There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers